File menu commands

The File menu offers the following commands:

New	Creates a new document.
Open	Opens an existing document.
Close	Closes an opened document.
Save	Saves an opened document using the same file name.
Save As	Saves an opened document to a specified file name.
Revert to saved	Closes an opened document and loads the last saved version from disc.
Browse	Shows an overview of a picture folder
Select scanner	Let's you select an installedTwain-Scannerdriver
Scan	Opens a Twain-Scannerdriver
Print	Prints a document.
Print Preview	Displays the document on the screen as it would appear printed.
Print Setup	Selects a printer and printer connection.
Send...	Sends the active document through electronic mail.
Exit	Exits Photo Line.


Edit menu commands

The Edit menu offers the following commands:

Undo	Reverse previous editing operation.
Redo	Reverse previous Undo operation.
New Undostep	Inserts a new Undo-Step.
Cut	Copies data from the document to the clipboard and deletes the active lasso.
Copy	Copies data from the document to the clipboard.
Paste picture	Pastes data from the clipboard into a new document.
Paste sekection	Pastes data from the clipboard into the document.
Delete	Delets the selected parts of a picture.
Select all	Selects the whole picture.
Deselect	Deselects the whole picture.


View menu commands

The View menu offers the following commands:

Toolbar	Shows or hides the toolbar.
Status Bar	Shows or hides the status bar.
Map	Shows a map of the current image.
Layers	Shows the layer panel
Tools	Shows or hides the Photo Line Tools
Toolsettings	Shows the possible settings of the selected tool.
Colorlist	Shows or hides the Colorlist
Brushlist	Shows or hides the brushlistpanel
Zoom	Here you can choose a Zoomfactor
Zoom in	Doubles the size of the current view
Zoom out	Halfs the size of the current view
Hide Panels	Shows or hides the Panels of Photo Line


Tool menu commands

The Tool menu offers the following commands:

Image	Imagefunctions
Mask	Maskfunctions
Colors	Change the colors of an image
Cluteditor	This function changes the Clut of a picture.
Picture Infos	This function shows some information about a picture.
Histogram	This funkction shows and optimises the histogram of a picture.
Change Planes	Changes or saves/loads single planes of a picture.
Separate Picture	Separates a RGB-Picture to a CMYK-Picture
Plot Picture	Outputs a Vector Picture to a HPGL-Plotter or a file.
Path paint	Draw along a path.
Densitometer	Densitometer to calibrate a scanner.
Animate Layers	Make a film from a layer picture


Filter Menu Commands

The Filter Menu offers the following commands:

PlugInFilter	PlugIn Filter
Drawingfilter	Drawingfilter
Free Filter	Free Filter
Special Tools	Special Filter functions.
Sharpen	Sharpens the picture.
Soften	Softens the picture.
Relief	Creates a Reliefeffect.
Roughen	Roughens the picture.
Median	The Median filter serves to eliminate isolated, aulty pixels
Minimum	Calculates the minimal values of a picture.
Maximum	Calculates the maximal values of a picture.
Middle	Calculates the middle values of a picture.
Dynamo	Calculates the middle values of a picture dynamically.
Vertical	Calculates the outline of a picture, preveres vertical lines.
Horizontal	Calculates the outline of a picture, preveres horizontal lines.
Outline	Calculates the outline of a picture.
Sponge	Again this particular filter gives results that are indicative of ist name.
USM	UnSharpMasking.
Binomial	Soften with binomial filter.
Free Filter	Here you can create free filters.
Drawingfilter	Here you can create Drawingfilters.
repeat last Filter	Here inserts Photo Line the last choosen Filter, so you can quickly repeat.


Window menu commands

The Window menu offers the following commands, which enable you to arrange multiple views of multiple documents in the application window:

New Window	Creates a new window that views the same document.
Cascade	Arranges windows in an overlapped fashion.
Tile	Arranges windows in non-overlapped tiles.
Arrange Icons	Arranges icons of closed windows.
Size To Fit	Trys to fit the size of the window to the size of the picture
Window 1, 2, ...	Goes to specified window.


Options menu commands

The Options menu offers te following commands:

Fileoptions	Options for file loading/saving.
Common	Common Options.
Register	Dialog to register Photo Line
Screencalibration	Calibrates the colors of the screen
Keyboardlayout	Customize your keyboard layout.


Help menu commands

The Help menu offers the following commands, which provide you assistance with this application:

Help Topics	Offers you an index to topics on which you can get help.
About	Displays the version number of this application.


File New command
New command (File menu)

Use this command to create a new document in Photo LIne.  Select the type of new file you want to create in the File New dialog box.

You can open an existing document with the Open command.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+N


Infodialog
Info about Photo Line

Here you can find the version number of Photo Line.


New Picture

New picture creates a new empty picture. After selecting this function, a dialog appears, where you can setup the picture type, size and resolution. You can also decide if the picture should have alpha (transparency information). Optionally you can setup a layer name.

Type

Sets the type of the picture.

Name

The layer name.

Alpha

Do you want transparency information?

Size

Here you can setup the size of the picture in mm or in pixels.

Resolution

Here you should setup the resolution of your printer.


File New dialog box

Use this command to open the dialog New Picture.


File Open command
Open command (File menu)

Use this command to open an existing document in a new window.  You can open multiple documents at once.  Use the Window menu to switch among the multiple open documents.  See Window 1, 2, ... command.

You can create new documents with the New command.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+O


File Open dialog box

The following options allow you to specify which file to open:

File Name

Type or select the filename you want to open.  This box lists files with the extension you select in the List Files of Type box.

List Files of Type

Select the type of file you want to open:

TIFF, PLD, PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP, PCD, ESM, IMG, TGA, WMF, CVG, GEM

Drives

Select the drive in which Photo Line stores the file that you want to open.

Directories

Select the directory in which Photo Line stores the file that you want to open.

Network...

Choose this button to connect to a network location, assigning it a new drive letter.


Der Befehl Schließen (Menü Datei)
Close command (File menu)

Use this command to close all windows containing the active document. Photo Line suggests that you save changes to your document before you close it.  If you close a document without saving, you lose all changes made since the last time you saved it.  Before closing an untitled document, Photo Line displays the Save As dialog box and suggests that you name and save the document.

You can also close a document by using the Close icon on the document's window, as shown below:


Save command (File menu)

Use this command to save the active document to its current name and directory.  When you save a document for the first time, Photo Line displays the Save As dialog box so you can name your document.  If you want to change the name and directory of an existing document before you save it, choose the Save As command.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+S


Save As command (File menu)

Use this command to save and name the active document.  Photo Line displays the Save As dialog box so you can name your document.

To save a document with its existing name and directory, use the Save command.


Revert to Saved (File menu)

Reloads from disk the latest copy of the graphics file that was loaded initially.

Shortcuts

Keys:	CTRL+U


Scan (File menu)

This function calls a Twain-scanner driver. If there is one present, it displays a dialogbox where you can do all nessesary setups for scanning. If you choose scanning an image, this image will be displayed by Photo Line after scanning.


Select scanner (File menu)

This function calls a Twain-scanner driver. If there is one present, it displays a dialogbox where you can choose a scannerdriver to work with.


Send command (File menu)

Use this command to send the active document through electronic mail.  This command presents a mail window with the active document attached to it.  You may then fill out the To: field, Subject: field, etc., and add text to the body of the message if you wish.  When you are finished you may click the "Send" button to send the message.


File Save As dialog box

The following options allow you to specify the name and location of the file you're about to save:

File Name

Type a new filename to save a document with a different name.  A filename can contain up to eight characters and an extension of up to three characters.  Photo Line accepts the extensions ".tif", ".bmp", ".jpg", ".img", ".gif", ".png" and ".eps" to save pictures and the extensions ".cvg" and ".gem" to save vector graphics. The extension ".pld" (Photo Line Document) saves all information in the current document.

Drives

Select the drive in which you want to store the document.

Directories

Select the directory in which you want to store the document.

Network...

Choose this button to connect to a network location, assigning it a new drive letter.


File 1, 2, 3, 4 command
1, 2, 3, 4 command (File menu)

Use the numbers and filenames listed at the bottom of the File menu to open the last four documents you closed.  Choose the number that corresponds with the document you want to open.


Exit command (File menu)

Use this command to end your Photo Line session.  You can also use the Close command on the application Control menu. Photo Line prompts you to save documents with unsaved changes.

Shortcuts

Mouse:	Double-click the application's Control menu button.

Keys:	ALT+F4


Undo/Can't Undo command (Edit menu)

Use this command to reverse the last editing action, if possible.   The name of the command changes, depending on what the last action was.  The Undo command changes to Can't Undo on the menu if you cannot reverse your last action.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+Z or

ALT-BACKSPACE


Redo command (Edit menu)

This command undos the last "Undo"-operation.

Shortcuts

Keys:	SHIFT+CTRL+Z


Cut command (Edit menu)

Use this command to remove the currently selected data from the document and put it on the clipboard.  This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Cutting data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+X


Copy command (Edit menu)

Use this command to copy selected data onto the clipboard.  This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Copying data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+C


Paste picture command (Edit menu)

Use this command to insert a copy of the clipboard contents in a new document.  This command is unavailable if the clipboard is empty.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+V


Paste selection command (Edit menu)

Use this command to insert a copy of the clipboard contents at the insertion point.  This command is unavailable if the clipboard is empty.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+E


Select all (Edit menu)

This function selects the whole picture, this means a lasso will be set around the image.

Shortcuts

Keys:	CTRL+A


Deselect (Edit menu)

This function deletes all selections. There is no warning.

Shortcuts

Keys:	CTRL+D


Delete (Edit menu)

This function deletes the active lasso.

Shortcuts

Keys:	Del


New Undostep (Edit menu)

This function inserts a new Undostep.

If you are painting in a picture and after a much work you make an error, Photo Line will undo the whole action. Therefore you should insert a new Undostep after you painted some good things.

Shortcuts

Keys:	CTRL+Space


Modifying the Document

You can change Photo Line documents in several ways.

You can use the tools of the Toolbar or all functions from the pulldown menus.

For more infos choose "? - index".


View Toolbar command
Toolbar command (View menu)

Use this command to display and hide the Toolbar, which includes buttons for some of the most common commands in Photo Line, such as File Open.  A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Toolbar is displayed.

See Toolbar for help on using the toolbar.


Toolbar

The toolbar is displayed across the top of the application window, below the menu bar.  The toolbar provides quick mouse access to many tools used in Photo Line,

To hide or display the Toolbar, choose Toolbar from the View menu (ALT, V, T).

Click	To

Open a new document.

Open an existing document.  Photo Line displays the Open dialog box, in which you can locate and open the desired file.

Save the active document or template with its current name.  If you have not named the document, <<YourApp>> displays the Save As dialog box.

Print the active document.

Remove selected data from the document and stores it on the clipboard.

Copy the selection to the clipboard.

Insert the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point.

Reverse the last editing.  Note:  You cannot undo some actions.

Go to the first record in the current selection.

Go to the previous record in the current selection.

Go to the next record in the current selection.

Go to the last record in the current selection.


View Status Bar Command
Status Bar command (View menu)

Use this command to display and hide the Status Bar, which describes the action to be executed by the selected menu item or depressed toolbar button, and keyboard latch state. A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Status Bar is displayed.

See Status Bar for help on using the status bar.


Tools (View menu)

Use this command to show/hide the Toolbar.

The Toolbar contains often used Tools to handle pictures, for example the brush.

You get help about the Toolbar, at Toolbar.


Zoom (View menu)

Zoom shows you a Submenu, where you can choose several resolutions.

You can select this resolutions with the keys "Ctrl1..8".

By selecting a "Zoom-Resolution" Photo Line tries automatically to fit the size of the window to the size of the image.


Zoom in (View menu)

"Zoom in" or the key "+" doubles the actual zoom. Photo Line displays the image larger.

Shortcuts

Keys:	+


Zoom out (View menu)

"Zoom out" or the key "-" halfes the actual zoom. Photo Line displays the image smaller.

Shortcuts

Keys:	+


Hide Panels

This function hides all panels on the screen. If you choose this function once more again, the panels will apear.

You can activate this function by pressing "Space".


The command tool settings (View menu)

This command opens the dialog toolsettings, or if it is already shown it will be hided.

Here you can setup the actual tool of the  toolbar. It changes for every tool.


Status Bar

The status bar is displayed at the bottom of the Photo Line window.  To display or hide the status bar, use the Status Bar command in the View menu.

The left area of the status bar describes actions of menu items as you use the arrow keys to navigate through menus.  This area similarly shows messages that describe the actions of toolbar buttons as you depress them, before releasing them.  If after viewing the description of the toolbar button command you wish not to execute the command, then release the mouse button while the pointer is off the toolbar button.

The right areas of the status bar indicate which of the following keys are latched down:

Indicator	Description

CAP	The Caps Lock key is latched down.

NUM	The Num Lock key is latched down.

SCRL	The Scroll Lock key is latched down.


New command (Window menu)

Use this command to open a new window with the same contents as the active window.  You can open multiple document windows to display different parts or views of a document at the same time.  If you change the contents in one window, all other windows containing the same document reflect those changes.  When you open a new window, it becomes the active window and is displayed on top of all other open windows.


Cascade command (Window menu)

Use this command to arrange multiple opened windows in an overlapped fashion.


Tile command (Window menu)

Use this command to arrange multiple opened windows in a non-overlapped fashion.


Tile Horizontal command (Window menu)

Use this command to vertically arrange multiple opened windows in a non-overlapped fashion.


Tile Vertical command (Window menu)

Use this command to arrange multiple opened windows side by side.


Window Arrange Icons Command

Use this command to arrange the icons for minimized windows at the bottom of the main window.  If there is an open document window at the bottom of the main window, then some or all of the icons may not be visible because they will be underneath this document window.


Split Command (Window menu)

Use this command to split the active window into panes.  You may then use the mouse or the keyboard arrows to move the splitter bars.  When you are finished, press the mouse button or enter to leave the splitter bars in their new location.  Pressing escape keeps the splitter bars in their original location.


The command size to fit (Window menu)

This function sizes, if possible, the size of the window to the size of the picture.


1, 2, ... command (Window menu)

Photo Line displays a list of currently open document windows at the bottom of the Window menu.  A check mark appears in front of the document name of the active window.  Choose a document from this list to make its window active.


Index command (Help menu)

Use this command to display the opening screen of Help.  From the opening screen, you can jump to step-by-step instructions for using Photo Line and various types of reference information.

Once you open Help, you can click the Contents button whenever you want to return to the opening screen.


Using Help command (Help menu)

Use this command for instructions about using Help.


Help Using Help Command
Context Help command

Use the Context Help command to obtain help on some portion of Photo Line.  When you choose the Toolbar's Context Help button, the mouse pointer will change to an arrow and question mark.  Then click somewhere in the Photo Line window, such as another Toolbar button.  The Help topic will be shown for the item you clicked.

Shortcut

Keys:	SHIFT+F1


Title Bar

The title bar is located along the top of a window.  It contains the name of the application and document.

To move the window, drag the title bar.  Note: You can also move dialog boxes by dragging their title bars.

A title bar may contain the following elements:

Application Control-menu button

Document Control-menu button

Maximize button

Minimize button

Name of the application

Name of the document

Restore button


Scroll bars

Displayed at the right and bottom edges of the document window.  The scroll boxes inside the scroll bars indicate your vertical and horizontal location in the document.  You can use the mouse to scroll to other parts of the document.


Size command (System menu)

Use this command to display a four-headed arrow so you can size the active window with the arrow keys.

After the pointer changes to the four-headed arrow:

1.	Press one of the DIRECTION keys (left, right, up, or down arrow key) to move the pointer to the border you want to move.

2.	Press a DIRECTION key to move the border.

3.	Press ENTER when the window is the size you want.

Note:  This command is unavailable if you maximize the window.

Shortcut

Mouse:	Drag the size bars at the corners or edges of the window.


Move command (Control menu)

Use this command to display a four-headed arrow so you can move the active window or dialog box with the arrow keys.

Note:  This command is unavailable if you maximize the window.

Shortcut

Keys:	CTRL+F7


System Minimize Command
Minimize command (application Control menu)

Use this command to reduce the Photo Line window to an icon.

Shortcut

Mouse:	Click the minimize icon [image] on the title bar.

Keys:	ALT+F9


Maximize command (System menu)

Use this command to enlarge the active window to fill the available space.

Shortcut

Mouse:	Click the maximize icon [image] on the title bar; or double-click the title bar.

Keys:	CTRL+F10 enlarges a document window.


Next Window command (document Control menu)

Use this command to switch to the next open document window.  Photo Line determines which window is next according to the order in which you opened the windows.

Shortcut

Keys:	CTRL+F6


Previous Window command (document Control menu)

Use this command to switch to the previous open document window.  Photo Line determines which window is previous according to the order in which you opened the windows.

Shortcut

Keys:	SHIFT+CTRL+F6


Close command (Control menus)

Use this command to close the active window or dialog box.

Double-clicking a Control-menu box is the same as choosing the Close command.

Note:  If you have multiple windows open for a single document, the Close command on the document Control menu closes only one window at a time.  You can close all windows at once with the Close command on the File menu.

Shortcuts

Keys: 	CTRL+F4 closes a document window

ALT+F4 closes the <<YourType>> window or dialog box


Restore command (Control menu)

Use this command to return the active window to its size and position before you chose the Maximize or Minimize command.


Switch to command (application Control menu)

Use this command to display a list of all open applications.  Use this "Task List" to switch to or close an application on the list.

Shortcut

Keys:	CTRL+ESC

Dialog Box Options

When you choose the Switch To command, you will be presented with a dialog box with the following options:

Task List

Select the application you want to switch to or close.

Switch To

Makes the selected application active.

End Task

Closes the selected application.

Cancel

Closes the Task List box.

Cascade

Arranges open applications so they overlap and you can see each title bar.  This option does not affect applications reduced to icons.

Tile

Arranges open applications into windows that do not overlap.  This option does not affect applications reduced to icons.

Arrange Icons

Arranges the icons of all minimized applications across the bottom of the screen.


No Help Available

No help is available for this area of the window.


No Help Available

No help is available for this message box.


No Function

This area has no function.


Print command (File menu)

Use this command to print a document.   This command presents a Print dialog box, where you may specify the range of pages to be printed, the number of copies, the destination printer, and other printer setup options.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:	CTRL+P


Print dialog box

The following options allow you to specify how the document should be printed:

Printer

This is the active printer and printer connection.  Choose the Setup option to change the printer and printer connection.

Setup

Displays a Print Setup dialog box, so  you can select a printer and printer connection.

Print Range

Specify the pages you want to print:

All	Prints the entire document.
Selection	Prints the currently selected text.
Pages	Prints the range of pages you specify in the From and To boxes.
Copies

Specify the number of copies you want to print for the above page range.

Collate Copies

Prints copies in page number order, instead of separated multiple copies of each page.

Print Quality

Select the quality of the printing.  Generally, lower quality printing takes less time to produce.

Print Options

Shows you the dialog box Print Options, where you can set position and size of your picture on the paper.


Print Progress Dialog

The Printing dialog box is shown during the time that Photo Line is sending output to the printer.  The page number indicates the progress of the printing.

To abort printing, choose Cancel.


File Print Preview command
Print Preview command (File menu)

Use this command to display the active document as it would appear when printed.  When you choose this command, the main window will be replaced with a print preview window in which one or two pages will be displayed in their printed format.  The print preview toolbar offers you options to view either one or two pages at a time; move back and forth through the document; zoom in and out of pages; and initiate a print job.


Print Preview toolbar

The print preview toolbar offers you the following options:

Print

Bring up the print dialog box, to start a print job.

Next Page

Preview the next printed page.

Prev Page

Preview the previous printed page.

One Page / Two Page

Preview one or two printed pages at a time.

Zoom In

Take a closer look at the printed page.

Zoom Out

Take a larger look at the printed page.

Close

Return from print preview to the editing window.


File Print Setup command
Print Setup command (File menu)

Use this command to select a printer and a printer connection.  This command presents a Print Setup dialog box, where you specify the printer and its connection.


Print Setup dialog box

The following options allow you to select the destination printer and its connection.

Printer

Select the printer you want to use.  Choose the Default Printer; or choose the Specific Printer option and select one of the current installed printers shown in the box.  You install printers and configure ports using the Windows Control Panel.

Orientation

Choose Portrait or Landscape.

Paper Size

Select the size of paper that the document is to be printed on.

Paper Source

Some printers offer multiple trays for different paper sources.  Specify the tray here.

Options

Displays a dialog box where you can make additional choices about printing, specific to the type of printer you have selected.

Network...

Choose this button to connect to a network location, assigning it a new drive letter.


Print Options Dialog

Here you can set a zoom value for the printing of the picture with a pulldown menu.

In the textfields you can set position and size of your picture in mm for printing.

You can place and resize the picture in the picturefield by klicking the picture with the mouse button.

You can use the curve symbol to calibrate the printing. Doubleklick to the curve symbol opens the Curve Editor.


Update command
Update command (File menu)

This command redraws the display of the OLE-program.


Save Copy As... command
Save Copy As... command (File menu)

This command is identically with Save As.


Embedded Object Resize Bar

This function resizes the embedded objects.


File Options

Here you can setup, how Photo Line loads or saves pictures.

PCD	Options for Photo CD (PCD) pictures
Plug In Path	Options for filter moduls
TIF	Options for TIF pictures
GIF	Options for GIF pictures.
CVG	Options for CVG pictures.
JPEG	Options for JPEG pictures.
PNG	Options for PNG pictures.


PCD

Here you can setup, which BASE format Photo Line should use to open Photo CD-pictures. You can choose between "Base / 16", "Base / 4", "Base", “Base * 4", "Base * 16" und "Base * 64".

The size of the picture depends on the selected BASE-format, i. e. BASE/16 has 128x192 Pixels, Base*16 has 2048x3072 Pixels. Be awear, that great BASE-formats need much memory.

The BASE*64 format is a special profiformat, that is not available on normal Photo CD's. Also the size (4096x6144 Pixels) is only for profis.


Plug In Path

Photo Line can load filter moduls from other very expensive imaging software products.

If you choose "Plug In Moduls active", Photo Line loads all accessible moduls from the path declared below. Choosing "Browse" brings up the file selector to get the path for the moduls. You should select one of the moduls in the desired path. Normaly filtermoduls have the extension "*.db8".

Sometimes there are older Moduls with 16 bit, that ones are ignored by Photo Line, other moduls are buggy programed this may damage Photo Line. Please put this moduls away from your Plug In Path.


TIF

Here you can setup the saving of pictures.

The popup lets choose the pack algorythm for the TIF-Format.

Available are TIF unpacked, TIF LZW-gepacked, TIF JPEG-packed, TIF Packbits, TIF Class 3 and TIF Class 4.

The slider JPEG-Compression sets the compression for the JPEG-formats A value of 100 means minimal packing, a value of 0 meens best packing (not very nice pictures). If you want to see the pictures on the screen you can pack with about 20, if you want to print the pictures try about 75.


GIF

Here you can set Gif pictures to be saved interlaced, that's good for using them for the internet.

You should also decide how much colors your Gif-picture should have (16 or 256).


CVG

This panels handels the saving of CVG (Calamus Vector graphics) files, here you can choose CVG 1.0 (only monochrom graphics) or CVG 1.1.

When loading CVG-Vectorpictures Photo Line detects the version automatically.


JPEG

Here you can select the type of JPEG format to save. If you select this button Photo Line will save a progressive JPEG-picture.

The slider JPEG-Compression sets the compression for the JPEG-formats. A value of 100 means minimal packing, a value of 0 meens best packing (not very nice pictures). If you want to see the pictures on the screen you can pack with about 20, if you want to print the pictures try about 75.


PNG

Here you can set PNG pictures to be saved interlaced, that's good for using them for the internet.

You can decide if you want the pictures to be packed.

You should also decide how much colors your PNG-picture should have (16 or 256).


common options
Common

Here you can setup common Options for Photo Line.

Brush	Sets the painting with the brush.
Mask	Sets the display of the mask.
Undo	Setup for Undo.
Lasso	Sets the Lasso.
Divers	Some settings.
Grid	Sets the Grid.
File Path	Sets for File Pathes
Transparency	How to display transparent areas
Graphictablet	Support for presser sensitive graphic tablets.


Brush Options

Here you can setup Photo Line to connect the points by drawing in a picture. You can also set the distance between two points.


Lasso Options

Here you can setup Photo line to fill the background of a Lasso with the backgroundcolor or with the picture.


Mask Options

Here you can setup the color and the intensity of the Mask.


Divers Options

Here you can setup the right mouse button while drawing. You can choose between popup or rubber function on the right mouse button.

You can setup the size of the pipette.

You can setup Photo Line to create a new window for some function like scale picture or to work in the original picture.

The "k"-Value regulates the display of the k-part (black-part) of CMYK-pictures. A value between 50 and 100% should be best.


undo options
Undo

Here you can setup how much Undo steps Photo Line should make.


grid options
Grid

Here you can setup the distance between two gridlines horizontally and vertically.

You can setup the display of the grid, there is lines, point or cross available.

Normally the grid is drawn in EXOR-mode, you can also setup a special color for the grid.

You can also setup the default setting for display grid and observe grid.


path options
Dateipfade

If you choose Save Path automatically,Photo Line saves all path of the Windows file selector automatically

When you deactivate the function, you can save the path while pressing the button Save Path.


transparency options
Transparency

This dialog sets the displaying of the transparent areas in Photo Line.

Photo Line displayes transparent areas with a pattern. Here you can choose the color and the size of the pattern.


tablet options
Graphictablet

Here you can setup the Photo Line support for presser sensitive graphic tablets.

If you activate support pressersensitive tablet, Photo Line changes the intensity of the drawing tool depening on the pressure of the tablet.


short cuts
Keyboard layout

Here you can define a key stroke for every tool of Photo Line.

First of all you have to choose the main menu in the left field of the dialog, then you can choose the tool in the middle field. In the right bottom field, Photo Line displayes the keystroke for the tool, which is already defined.

New Shortcut let you enter a new shortcut for the selected tool.

Already defined shows you what tool has this short cut until now. If the key stroke isn't used until now, nothing will be displayed.

If you press Set, the new Shortcut will be set.

Delete delets the selected Shortcut.


layer panel
Layers

The layerpanel shows all layers of a picture.

Every layer field has a Showsymbol, which lets you display the layer or not.

There is also a Selektionsymbol, which you can use for functions discribed later.

Beside the Selektionsymbol there is the name of the layer.

When a layer is activ, the layer button is pressed.

You can activating a layer by clicking on the name of the layer with the left mouse button or by selecting the layer with the layer cursor.

The intensity slider changes the intensity of the active layer.

When you click the right mouse button, while the mouse is on the layer panel, the layer popum menu appears. Here you can select some functions:

- new layer: You can create a new layer.

- delete active layer: Delets the active layer.

- copy active layer: Copies the active layer.

- active layer before marked layer: Moves the active layer before the last marked layer.

- active layer behind marked layer: Moves the active layer behind the last marked layer.

- change selection to layer: Converts a selection (lasso) to a layer

- change layer to selection: Converts a layer to a selection (lasso)

- group marked layer: Groups all marked layers, so you can move all layers atonce. You can't draw in grouped layers.

- ungroup layer: Ungroups the selected group.

- reduce to background layer: Reduces all layers to one layer, the background layer. Be careful, all layer information will be lost. You will need this function to handle your picture in other programms than Photo Line.

- layer information: You get information about the active layer.


Register

Photo Line is allowed to be used for 30 days without registration.

You can register Photo Line for 69 US$ (DM 99.-) at:

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After that you will get a registration number. This number has to be filled into the two text fields of this dialog.


Filter

When this item is selected the "Filter" Dialogue-Window will be displayed. In this window, you can select from the different types of available filters (via the "Filter type" popup). You can also set the matrix size using the "Filter size" popup.

You can also select a color type. Photo Line also allows individual color planes to be affected by the filter. If a color plane is depressed, it will be affected by the filter's action.

The "Intensity" slider sets the strength of the filter.

Some filters also allow the setting of the threshold by providing a "Special" slider.

Other filters may have additional settings that can be reached by clicking on the "Option" button.

For "Free" filter, you can enter the weights of the individual points; thus creating your own custom filters. A value in the text field "Div" divides the weights of individual points by itself. "Bias" creates null point shift. Remember that you can have 3x3 or 5x5 free filters. You may also load and save "Free filters", by clicking on the "File" popup. Clicking on "OK" will close the "Option" Dialog box. To execute a chosen filter, click on "Filter" button in the "Filter" dialog box.

Photo Line contains the following standard filters:

- Sharpen

- Soften

- Relief

- Roughen

- Minimal

- Maximal

- Middle

- Dynamo

- Vertical

- Horizontal

- Outline

- Sponge

- USM

- Binomial

- Median

- FreeFilter


The filter Sharpen (Filter menu)

The Sharpen filter, through the increase of the gray value will boost the contrast and/or the color intensity between adjacent pixels, thereby making the picture appear sharper. So it is possible, for example, in a portrait, by the creative use of masks and this filter to make somone's hair sharply defined while making the face appear fuzzy, or vice-versa.

Even on the screen optically separable objects can "magically" become visible. Thereby this process also finds employment in the scientific area, in the medicine and/or the criminology area, eg. A photograph with a car's liscence plate in the shot, but too small or blurry to distiguish is the perfect subject for this filter. Also in the advertising area is this tool of great benefit. Elements can be emphasized dramatically, which should pull the attention of the viewer to the object or product. This can be implemented so invisibly that only a professional would recognize the manipulation.


The filter Soften (Filter menu)

The Soften filter through the decrease of the gray value will lessen the contrast and/or the color intensity between adjacent pixels, thereby making the picture appear softer or less contrasted.

If this process is applied, for example, an object standing in the foreground will be more distiguished especially if there is any kind of movement occurring in the background. This can also be used to lessen the division between foreground and background objects. This can enhance a soft, romantic look to an image.

This effect is comparable to a blur or gauze filter on a camera.


The filter Relief (Filter menu)

This filter produces a pseudo - 3D effect of the target picture. Depending upon the direction chosen this filter will effect a gray and edged look to the picture, somewhat like a relief on a stone tablet. In one direction the relief may have shadowed effects on one side while highlights on the opposite side. The higher contrasted areas become raised giving these parts an edge to base the direction of the lightsource from.


Relieffilter Dialog

This dialog appears, when the relief filter is activated and the user is clicking on the options button. Here you can setup the angle of the relief filter.


The filter Roughen (Filter menu)

Operational area of this filter is particularly suited to the phototechnical and artistic areas. With this filter a roughening effect is achieved by the dimming and/or illumination of adjacent pixels. This is particularily effective with gray scale pictures. Many differing effects can also be created by combining this filter with others; such as the "Middle" filter to, create a softened look.


The filter Minimal (Filter menu)

The Minimal filter serves in similar fashion to the "Median" and "Maximum" filters in that it attempts to moderate or eliminate isolated stray pixels within a given intensity.

Unlike these other filters though, this produces a minimal filter to the pixels when processing the picture or area. This has a tendancy to manipulate the pixels in such a way as to make the picture appear darker.


The filter Maximal (Filter menu)

The Maximal filter serves, similarly to the "Median" and "Minimal" filters, in that it also does its job by the elimination of isolated, faulty pixels.

Unlike the before named filters, however the Maximal filter works on the adjacent pixels in such a way as to maximize the effect. This has the effect of making the image appear lighter.


The filter Middle (Filter menu)

The Middle filter has an effect on the filtermatrix through the medium gray, or color value of the adjacent pixels. This means, that the gray value or color intensity is reduced, so that the separation of adjacent structures is lessened.

This effect should not be confused with the effect that softening or blur filters have, since these address especially the picture structure. Wheras the Middle filter works flatly to calm the optical planes, in other words this filter does not create quite as strong an appearance of haziness as do these other aforementioned filters.


The filter Dynamo (Filter menu)

This filter works like the Middle filter.


The filter Vertical (Filter menu)

The Vertical filter finds in a gray color, or color photo the vertical edges of the structures contained in the picture. This filter obviously works particularily well on vertical structures in the picture that it perceives. Any vertical structures that it recognizes or creates are therefore greatly enhanced so that edges are given to harscher lines. Operational areas of this filter lie, in the scientific area, as well as the artistic area, as a vectorization tool.

In the technical area it is used to enhance any vertical structures in sedimentary layers or similarily in merial testing.


The filter Horizontal (Filter menu)

The Horizontal filter finds in a gray color, or color photo the horizontal edges of the structures contained in the picture. This filter obviously works particularily well on horizontal structures in the picture that it perceives. Any horizontal structures that it recognizes or creates are therefore greatly enhanced so that edges are given to harsher lines.

Operational areas of this filter lie, in the scientific area, as well as the artistic area, as a vectorization tool.

In the technical area it is used to enhance any horizontal structures in sedimentary layers or similarily in material testing.


The filter Outline (Filter menu)

This filter is exactly as it sounds. By eleminating pixels outside what it defines as edge countours the effect is one of a contouring pencil. Much depends on intensity used and the picture that you begin with. Extremely varied results can be achieved by this filter.


 The filter Sponge (Filter menu)

Again this particular filter gives results that are indicative of its name. By causing an extrusion of its pixel influence in a seemingly random pattern this filter gives the effect that a sponge has been taken to the image.

While simultaneously blurring some adjacent pixels but leaving others alone a dichotomous effect is created giving the image this sponge impression.


The filter USM - UnSharpMasking (Filter menu)

In the context of printing or lithography this may be the single most important filter in the digital realm. This filter basically creates two images (one being a very sharpened image the other a blurry image), and then compares the data between them. In the areas where there is a substantial difference, then this area will receive the greatest amount of exaggeration. This is done on a pixel by pixel level so the filter takes a bit of time to make its calculations.

The intensity denotes the amount of effect the filter will have on the image.

Threshold controls the exclusion values within transitions. The higher the threshold value, the more transitions will be ignored.

This description is spartan as to go into this filter in any great detail would take up many pages to explain.


The filter Binomial (Filter menu)

Special Softenfilter.


The filter  Median (Filter menu)

The Median filter serves to eliminate isolated, faulty pixels. Therby it becomes possible, in pictures, which are ditorted, or with a overly granular structure, a smoother aspect can be given to them.

Simultaneously the definition is reduced, similar to the "Middle" filter. Similar to the "Middle" filter adjacent pixels are given new gray values. So that altogether a quieter picture emerges.


The filter Free Filter (Filter menu)

This is a freely programmable filter. These filters can be saved as well as loaded from disk. Some finished filters exist already for Photo Line. If you use these filters (idenified by the FIL extension), you can adjust the strenghth of influence by the "Intensity Slider", the rage of influence is from 0 to 255. These filters need no more understanding than this.

However if you want to develop your own filters or adjust existing ones then some further knowledge is required, or you could just experiment.


Setup free Filters

For each pixel the Filtermatrix can be acjusted by a factor between -99 and +99. All pixel values multiplied with this scaling factor and the results are added. This result is the divided by a suitable divisor. The divisor is defined in the "Div" field. If the scaling factor adds up to anything other than  0, use the sum as the divisor.

The result can be influenced by means of a pixel lock (under "Bias"). For typical effects a "Bias" of 128 is suggested.

If the option "Clip" is implemented then defects in the calculations will also be absorbed. This can result in some strange but interesting effects.


Special Effects

Here are some special effect filters in Photo Line.

Blur	Blur effect.
Mosaik	Mosaik effect.
Swirl	Whirlpool effect.
Glow	Your picture will glow.
Emboss	Embosses a grey picture in a picture.
Red Eyes	Replaces the red eyes of a photo.
Shadow	Creates a shadow from a lasso.


 The command Blur (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

Blur is just as it sounds, provoking a blur effect to the desired picture.


 The command Mosaic (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

Mosaik will create obviously a mosaic pattern, the size of the mosaic effect will be determined by the value of the pointsize you enter.


The command Swirl (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

Swirl creates a whirlpool effect and you can control the angle of this effect as well as putting an antialiasing filter on to it.


The command Glow (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

This function can load a TIF-picture (best with grey or bitmap picture) by pressing Load Bitmap. Photo Line will display the picture in the preview window.

Glowcolor is the color with that the TIF-picture will glow. The centercolor is the color in the middle of the TIF-picture. Strength is the width of the glow effect.

When you press Start, the TIF-picture will be set as glowing selection (lasso) into the picture. You can drag the selection with the mouse to the desired locaten and double click on it to set it into the picture.


The command Emboss (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

This function gets a grey pic from the mask of a picture and embosses it into the picture.

You can choose the direction for the shadow. Height means the height of the embossed picture. Width is the with of the contour of the embossed picture.


The command Red Eyes (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

This function replaces the red eyes of people on photos which are photographed with a flash light.

Eye color is the wished new color. When you press Start, Photo Line replaces the red eyes.

Before you start this function, you should put a mask around the eyes, because otherwise Photo Line will have problems to replace only the red color of the eyes.


The command Shadow (Menu Filter/Specialeffects)

This function creates a shadow around the lasso of a picture.

The preview shows what the result will be.

Angle sets the direction of the shadow.

Intensity is the intensity of the shadow.

You can also select a color for the shadow: shadow color.

The width and the distance of the shadow can be setup.


The command Drawingfilter (Filter menu)

The drawing filter is a very powerful but also complex Filter.

It works like this:

The drawing filter walks with a predefined step width throught the picture. Depending on the color of every position it does a special drawing action. There are several actions possible:  Drawing, Water and Finger. Additionally you can change the drawing angle, the drawing width, the intensity and the saturation of the drawingfilter, depending on the color of the position.

You get more information at Options for the drawingfilter.


Options for the drawingfilter

To understand the options for the drawing filter, you have to understand how it works.

At the beginning, Photo Line creates a new picture. You can setup to fill the new picture with a color or to copy the source picture to the new destination picture.

After that, Phto Line runs with a predefined step width through the picture. On every position Photo Line will do an action with a selected tool. This action can now, depending on the color of the point at the actual position, vary: it can be setup the drawing angle, the drawing width, the intensity and the saturation of the drawing color.

Here is the description of the fields in the dialog box:

The button copy origin means that Photo Line will copy the source picture to the destination picuter. If you don't select this button, Photo Line will fill the destination picture with the color beside. Here you decide if Photo Line should draw on a clear pictue or over the original picture.

Brush sets the Brush for the drawing filter.der für die Zeichenaktionen verwendet wird. The brush is for two reasons important. The first reason is that the drawing filter will paint with this brush, the other reason is that some fields have to be set relativly to the pixel size (in percent). Here takes Photo Line always the smaller brushsize. You can drag the brush to the drawingfilter from the Brusheditor or from the Brushlistpanel .

Step sets the distance for the actions. The steps are in percent of the brush width.

The intensity to draw can vary differently. There is a popup and two text fields for the minimum and maximum intensity (0 to 255) and a button. There are four possibillities to setup the intensity: it can be fixed, depending on the color type, on the intensity und on the saturation of the color of the actual position. If you choose fixed, the maximum value will be set. All other setups will result in an intensity between the minimum and the maximum value. You can also invert the intensity.

Angle sets the the direction of the drawing (starting at the actual position). You can setup, like intensity, a minimum and a maximum Angle (0 to 255).

Tool sets the drawing tool. You can select Drawing, Water and Finger . Water and finger work as you know. Whenn you select drawing, the drawing color will be read from the actual position of the picture.

Length sets the length of the drawing. You have the same options like intensity. Normaly you should select a minimum and a maximum length in percent of the brush size. You can change this by selecting absolute. Then the values have to be set in pixels.

The last value, saturation, is only important, when the tool is Drawing . Wenn saturation is setup to saturation and the minimum value is 0 and the maximum value is 255 the drawing filter will draw with the color of the actual position. You can change this. When you select fix and set the maximum value to 255 the picture will get much more colored.

The created drawing filters can be saved and loaded. You do this by selecting file.

If you save your drawing filters to a folder "DrawingFilter" (where PhotoLine.exe is), Photo Line will load it automatically when starting next time and insert it at drawingFilter.


The command Userfilter (Filter menu/Userfilter)

This is a user defined drawing filter. It was created with the command drawingfilter.

If you want to change this filter, you have to call this command and load this filter. The filename is as the same as the filtername is with the extension ".drf". For example the filtername is storm, then is the filename storm.drf. You find the filters normally in the folder "DrawingFilter" (where PhotoLine.exe is). After changing the filter you can save it with the same name. To have the changed filter in the sub menu you have to select Load new.


The command Load new (Filter menu/Drawing filter)

If you created new drawing filters with the command drawing filter or if you changed a drawing filter you have to select this point to get the filter in the menu list.


Setups for the Userfilter (Drawing filter)

This dialog appears if you select the command user filter .

You have only some possibilities for setup. The fields have the same meaning like setup user filter.


The command User filter (Filter menu/Free filter)

This filter is a user defined filter. It was created with the command freer filter .

If you want to change this filter, you have to call this command an load this filter. The filename is as the same as the filtername is with the extension ".fil". For example the filtername is Fractal, then is the filename fractal.fil. You normally find the filters in the folder "FreeFilter" (where PhotoLine.exe is). After changing the filter you can save it with the same name. To have the changed filter in the sub menu you have to select Load new.


Setups for the Userfilter (Free filter)

This dialog appears if you select the command free filter .

You have only some possiblities for setup. The fields have the same meaning like filtern.


The command Load new (Filter menu/Free filter)

If you created new drawing filters with the command free filter or if you changed a drawing filter you have to select this point to get the filter in the menu list.


Plug In Filter (Filter menu)

Here inserts Photo Line plug in filter from various developpers. Plug in filters have the extension "*.8BF".

You can setup at "Options - Fileoptions - plug in path" where Photo Line should find the filters.

Photo Line loads only plug in filter when you start it.


Drawing filter (Filter menu)

Here inserts Photo Line drawing filters, if you select drawing filter - load new or Photo Line finds filters at startup in the folder "DrawingFilter".


Free filter (Filter menu)

Here inserts Photo Line free filters, if you select free filter - load new or Photo Line finds filters at startup in the folder "FreeFilter".


repeat last Filter (Filter menu)

Here inserts Photo Line the last choosen Filter, so you can quickly repeat.


Curve Editor

The curve editor is used to regulate the values of various functions (such as the clut editor). The curve editor Dialogue-Window is displayed by double clicking on a particular curve field on the screen, by the left mouse button.

On the upper left corner of the curve editor, there is a Pull-down menu file, where you can load new curve values or save the existing ones.

("Pull-down menus can be removed by clicking the mouse button anywhere outside of the menu.")

Below the Pull-down menu, the current position (x and y coordinates) of the mouse pointer ist displayed. The coordinates are only displayed when the mouse pointer is on the curve.

In the "Action" section of the curve editor, the following buttons are available:

	Insert Point: When in Line, Bezier or Lagrange modes, you can insert a point by clicking on the button and then clicking on the curve.
	Delete Point: When in Line, Bezier or Lagrange modes, a particular point can be deleted by selecting this button and clicking on the point,
	The arrows will move the curve to the selected direction. You can also reset and horizontally reflect the curve.
	Neutral: This Button makes a neutral Kurve (line from lower left to upper right).
	Mirror: This function reflects the curve on the horizontal Midline.
	Plakate: This function generates stairs. The number of steps can be entered in the field beside.
There are several modes of editing the curve: freely using the mouse (in manual mode), line editing, Bezier editing, Lagrange editing or via direct text input. Bezier and Lagrnage are used to produce actual curves.

Clicking OK will assume the new curve and Cancel will abort the editing, and the changes will not take effect.


Curveinput within Textfields

Here you can generate a curve by typing the values of the curve.


Color Editor

The color editor is required to select a color. It is activated by double clicking the left mouse button on any color fileds( i. e., on the "Color Panel", or the back/foreground colors of the toolbox). You can change the "Color type" by clicking on the "Popup" menu on the left top corner of the color selector Dialogue-Wondow. The possible types are RGB, HSV and CMYK.

There are a number of ways to select a color. You can move the color box on the palette to the desired color. You can also select a color by entering the apoproproate color values for each color component onto the editable fields, or by moving the color component sliders. The current color is displayed beside the color palette. This is the color that you can use for dragging and dropping.


plotter output
Plotter

You can print Vector graphics on a HPGL compatible Plotter.

The following options are available in the "Plotter" Dialogue-Window.

Paper size can be set by entering the values of the width and the height in mm; or by the Plotter button (this feature is only available if the plotter is connected serial).

Pic Size will set the size of the image to be plotted. You can enter the values directly, or use the proportional option, where a proportional width-height relationship is calculated.

Offset is the offset of the picture relative to the left-upper corner of the paper. X and Y Offsets indicate how far from the left lower corner of the paper the Plot should begin. If Edge detect is selected, the edge of the graphic window becomes the edge of the vector graphic to be plotted. If Selection is selected, only the selected vector objects are plotted. The Speed slider is used to set the speed of the plotter head. You may also slect the output port, where the image should be output to. You can output the image onto the parallel port, the serial port, or to a file.


Configure the serial Port

Here you can configure the serial Port for the plotter output.


Configure the parallel Port

Here you can configure the parallel Port for the plotter output.


Brush Editor

With the "Brush editor", it is possible to create custom brushes.

With the "Inner radius" and "outer radius" slider, it is possible to set the distance between the inner and outer parameters of the brush. The separation between the inner and outer parameter is indicated in gray scale. The form of this separation is defined by the "curve box".

You can double click on the "curve box" to reach the Curveneditor and modify the curve.

The shape of the brush can also be toggled between "circular" and "rectangular" via the popup on the upper right-hand corner.

The brush is shown on the left-hand box of this Dialogue-Window. From here you can drag the brush wherever you want.


The Map

The map shows the whole picture.

An inverted rectangle shows the actual available part of the picture.

It can be moved with the mouse. When selecting an edge of the rectangle, the zoom can be changed.

The size of the the map dialog is changeable.


Brush Selector

The "Brush selector" Dialogue-Window lets you choose the current brush.

You can create a new brush by double clicking on any of the brushes on "Brush selector" Dialogue-Window. Doing this brings up the Brush Editor. You can copy a brush from ist original position to another position by holding the left mouse button and dragging it to a new position. You can also load or save the available brushes by clicking on the "Action" popup and selecting "Load" or "Save". If the brushes are saved to a file called "DEFAULT.BRU" in the "DEFAULTS" directory, they will automatically be loaded upon program start.


Color Selector

Choosing this item from the "Tools" menu brings up the "Choose Color" Dialogue-Window, which lets you create your own color palette. Color palettes can be saved and loaded at any time, using the "File" popup, on the left hand corner. Remember to assign a name to your palette.

If you save it as "DEFAULT.COL", then it is automatically loaded upon program start.

To change a color index, double click on it. Doing this brings up the standard Color Edior Dialogue-Window. The procedure of choosing a color is just like before: once you have chosen a specific color, you can click on "OK" on the standard color selector Dialogue-Window to accept the color or drag the color box from the standard color selector Dialogue Wiondow to any of the boxes on the "Choose Color" Dialogue-Window.

Within the "Choose Color" Dialogue-Window, you can swap each color box by dragging and dropping it onto the new position. To select a color from the "Choose Color" Dialogue-Window, drag the color box on to the forground or background color boxes of the "Tool box". Alternatively, to set the foreground color simply click on it. To set the background color, click on a color box while holding the SHIFT-key.


Alert Panel

This panel apears every time, anything special happens.


Tooloptions

Here you can choose some special Options for the tools.


Tip of the day
Tip

This function shows some short tips for Photo Line.


Help

Help or the key "F1" shows you the online help system of Photo Line.

If the mouse pointer is over a Dialogue-Window, you get help on this.


mask
Masks

Photo Line has several Mask functions:

Delete Mask	Deletes the active Mask.
Invert Mask	Inverts the active Mask.
From Lasso	Generates a Mask from the active Lasso.
To Lasso	Generates a Lasso from the active Mask.
Load Mask	Loads a Mask.
Save Mask	Saves a Mask.


Delete Mask (Tool menu/mask)

This function deletes the Maskof the active Image.

There is no warning dialogue.

The required memory for the mask will be free.


Invert Mask (Tool menu/mask)

This function inverts the Mask of the actual image.

Shortcut

Keys::	CTRL+I


from Lasso (Tool menu/mask)

This function generates a Mask from the active Lasso.

If there is already a mask it will be deleted.

In most cases you should use the function Invert Mask after this.

Shortcut

Keys::	CTRL+M


to Lasso (Tool menu/mask)

This function generates a Lasso from the active Mask.

If there is already a Lasso it will be deleted.

This function is very useful if you generated a Automask to get a part of a picture.

Shortcut

Keys::	CTRL+L


Load Mask (Tool menu/mask)

This function loads a mask for the active picture.

If there is already a mask it will be deleted.

You can load grey or bitmap pictures. If the size of the picture is to large it will be truncated.


Save Mask (Tool menu/mask)

This function saves the mask of the active picture.

You can save a grey picture in the TIF-format. You can choose the parameters of the TIF-format at Fileoptions.


The Lasso

With the lasso, you can select parts of a picture.

The selected parts of a picture can be moved or scaled.

When the lasso is moved, you can coose at Common Options, Lasso if you want the part of the picture, were the lasso was to be deleted or not.

You can even drag a lasso to another picture in Photo Line.

When you click and drag the mouse on an edge of the lasso, you can scale the lasso.

You should double click on the lasso to set it into the picture.

Some options you can choose at Rectanglelasso, Circlelasso, free Lasso.


Change the Picture

Photo Line has several functions to change pictures:

rotate picture	rotate a picture with a chooseable angle.
invert picture	invert a picture, it will be displayed negativ
scale picture	change the size of a picture
convert picture	convert a picture to another picture type
distorb picture	distorbs a picture
project picture	projects a picture to a 3D model


Change Colors

Photo Line has several functions to change the colors of a picture:

replace colors	You can replace one color of a picture with another color.
reduce colors	You can reduce the count of colors of a picture
choose colors	You can select one color of a picture
count colors	You can count how many different colors your picture has


Count Colors (Menu Tools/Colors)

This functions counts how many different colors your picture has. Photo Line counts always the colors of the last activated picture.


Choose Colors (Menu Tools/Colors)

This function selects one color of a picture, so you can get for example all red parts of a picture.

The preview shows the selected areas.

Tolerance lets select more or less colorroom.

The color picker selects one color, the color picker + adds a color, the color picker - removes a color.

Normally you will get a new picture with the selected colors when you leave the dialog. If you slect target mask, Photo Line will copy the result to the mask of your picture.


Animate Layers (Menu Tools)

With this dialog, you can create a little film.

Speed sets the speed of the film.

The buttons with the double arrows play the film in the desired direction.

The buttons with the single arrows step one picture to the next.

The stop button stops the film.

While the animation the background picture is always displayed and the other picture are shown sequentially.

The film can be saved as an animated GIF.


Move Layers

With this function, you can select single Layers and move them against the background layer.

When you click the left mouse button, Photo Line selects the topmost layer under the mouse. Klicking once more again at the same place, Photo Line selects the next layer. You can see the selected layer because Photo Line displayes a border around the selected layer.

You can move the layer while dragging the mouse within a selected layer.


Browse

When you select this function, the windows file selector appears. You should select one picture of a picture directory. Photo Line loads now all pictures of this directory and shows a dialog with this pictures. Now you can open every picture by left clicking the browse panel.

To avoid long loading times, Photo Line saves all pictures in a file "PlBrowse.dat".


Toolbar

The Toolbar contains many drawing functions from Photo Line.

Brush for painting in an image.

Rubber for deleting parts of an image.

Color Picker use it to get the color of a point in an image.

Process Gradient will produce a color gradient.

Rectangular Lasso

Free Lasso are needed to move and copy parts of an image.

Layer to select or move layers.

Automask to select parts of an image automatically.

Flood Fill fills areas with a color.

Magnifier zooms the display on the screen.

Stamp ist a free defined brush.

Text Tool lets use text in images.

Filter Brush filters parts of an image.

Copy Brush copies parts of an image.

Finger smears parts of an image like a finger.

Water smears parts of an image like water.

Picture brighter brightens parts of an image.

Picture darker darkens parts of an image.

Foregroundcolor and Backgroundcolor are used for many functions in Photo Line.

Observe Mask protects the parts under the mask before changing.

Process Mask makes you working in the mask, not the picture.

Show Grid displayes the grid on the screen.

Observe Grid makes the tools snap to the grid.

Show Mask if pressed, Photo Line displays the mask data.

Show Vector/Lasso if pressed, Photo Line displays the vector/lasso data.


Tool Brush

You can draw normal using the brush.

The brush will have the color of the Foregroundcolor and it looks like the brush you have choosen from the dialog Brush Selector.

You can setup the intensity and the colorplanes for the brush.

You can change the Foregroundcolor in several ways:

- double click on the icon, then you get the Color Editor where you can change the color.

- you can drag a color from every other colorfield on the screen to the Foregroundcolor .

- you can click on one of the colorfields of the Color Selector.

- you can hold down the "Alternate"-key and click on the wished color in the picture.


Tool Brush

You can draw normal using the brush.

The brush will have the color of the Foregroundcolor and it looks like the brush you have choosen from the dialog Brush Selector.

You can setup the intensity and the colorplanes for the brush.

You can change the Foregroundcolor in several ways:

- double click on the icon, then you get the Color Editor where you can change the color.

- you can drag a color from every other colorfield on the screen to the Foregroundcolor.

- you can click on one of the colorfields of the Color Selector.

- you can hold down the "Alternate"-key and click on the wished color in the picture.


Rubber

You can erase any part of the image using this tool. The mode of erasing is determined by the drawing tools. The intensity of ther eraser is always at full intensity. The size of the rubber is chosen by the Brush Selector. The color of the rubber is defined by the Backgroundcolor.


Rubber

You can erase any part of the image using this tool. The mode of erasing is determined by the drawing tools. The intensity of ther eraser is always at full intensity. The size of the rubber is chosen by the Brush Selector. The color of the rubber is defined by the Backgroundcolor.


Color Picker

You can set the current (foreground) color by clicking on this icon, and then clicking on any pixel in the current image. Wen this icon is depressed, the mouse arrow will change to an "eye dropper".

You can also change the forground color by pressing the Alternate-button and moving the mouse onto the picture window. When the mouse pointer i on a picture window, the mouse arrow will change to an "eye dropper"; here you can click on any color/pixel on the window thus changing the foreground color.


Color Picker

You can set the current (foreground) color by clicking on this icon, and then clicking on any pixel in the current image. Wen this icon is depressed, the mouse arrow will change to an "eye dropper".

You can also change the forground color by pressing the Alternate-button and moving the mouse onto the picture window. When the mouse pointer i on a picture window, the mouse arrow will change to an "eye dropper"; here you can click on any color/pixel on the window thus changing the foreground color.


Process gradient

It will prduce a color gradient, upon setting the starting, some middle and the end color, as well as the gradient type (i. e., linear or radial). To create a color gradient, with the mouse, click on a starting point and an ending point, and a gradient, depending on the gradient type, and the start-middle-dne colors will be produced. If you don't want to have a middle color, check-off "middle" in the "Process gradient" Dialog box. The gradient type can be selected by clicking on the popup on the top of the dialog box.


Process gradient

It will prduce a color gradient, upon setting the starting, some middle and the end color, as well as the gradient type (i. e., linear or radial). To create a color gradient, with the mouse, click on a starting point and an ending point, and a gradient, depending on the gradient type, and the start-middle-dne colors will be produced. If you don't want to have a middle color, check-off "middle" in the "Process gradient" Dialog box. The gradient type can be selected by clicking on the popup on the top of the dialog box.


free Lasso, geometric Lasso

In creating a "Free lasso", you can draw any shape on the picture window. Clicking the right mouse button will create the lasso. "Cut Lasso" will copy the lasso (and it's contents) to a new picture window. This funkction is particularly useful when you want to extract an area of a scanned image.

"Adopt mask" will create a lasso from a masked region. However, you must first invert the mask.

Double clickin gon the copy of the lasso (in the new position) will superimpose the lasso onto the image. You may resize a lasso by positioning the mouse pointer on the corners of the lasso, and moving the mouse while holding down the left mouse button.

You may also set the level of intensity for various levels of transparency, when copying lassos.

Lassos can be saved and loaded.


free Lasso, geometric Lasso
geometric Lasso, free Lasso

In creating a "Free lasso", you can draw any shape on the picture window. Clicking the right mouse button will create the lasso. "Cut Lasso" will copy the lasso (and it's contents) to a new picture window. This funkction is particularly useful when you want to extract an area of a scanned image.

"Adopt mask" will create a lasso from a masked region. However, you must first invert the mask.

Double clickin gon the copy of the lasso (in the new position) will superimpose the lasso onto the image. You may resize a lasso by positioning the mouse pointer on the corners of the lasso, and moving the mouse while holding down the left mouse button.

You may also set the level of intensity for various levels of transparency, when copying lassos.

Lassos can be saved and loaded.


Lassopanel

Here you can setup, the zoom quality of lassos.

You can also setup the smooth edge for copying the lasso into the picture. You can create a Lasso from a Mask and you can save and load a lasso.


Automask

This function will automatically mask a part of an image. You can Automask a region by clicking the mouse pointer (which has been turned to a magic wand) on to your image. If you would like to add more regions to mask, hold down the SHIFT button and click on another region. If you would like to delete an automatically masked region, hold down the CONTROL button and then click on the region. (The area that is masked now, displayed in red, is called an "Automask". A "Mask" is when an Automask is adopted into a mask).

To delete the entire Auto-masked region, click on "delete".

If you are satisfied with the masking, in order for the masked regions to take into effect, you must choose "adopt Mask". Please note that if you already have a masked region, this operation will delete all other masked regions.

"Fill holes" will produce a homogenous Automask, ignoring small bunches of pixels that would normally be observed as separate entities. The larger the tolerance level, the more unrestricted the production of the masked region will be. You can also select a color mode, RGB or HSV. In color productions, we recommend using HSV, while in pictures with predominantely black and white colors, we recommend using RGB.


Automask

This function will automatically mask a part of an image. You can Automask a region by clicking the mouse pointer (which has been turned to a magic wand) on to your image. If you would like to add more regions to mask, hold down the SHIFT button and click on another region. If you would like to delete an automatically masked region, hold down the CONTROL button and then click on the region. (The area that is masked now, displayed in red, is called an "Automask". A "Mask" is when an Automask is adopted into a mask).

To delete the entire Auto-masked region, click on "delete".

If you are satisfied with the masking, in order for the masked regions to take into effect, you must choose "adopt Mask". Please note that if you already have a masked region, this operation will delete all other masked regions.

"Fill holes" will produce a homogenous Automask, ignoring small bunches of pixels that would normally be observed as separate entities. The larger the tolerance level, the more unrestricted the production of the masked region will be. You can also select a color mode, RGB or HSV. In color productions, we recommend using HSV, while in pictures with predominantely black and white colors, we recommend using RGB.


Flood Fill

The following parameters can be set for the flood fill: the intensity of the filling, the tolerance of the color and the color type. The flood fill always fills with the Foregroundcolor.


Flood Fill

The following parameters can be set for the flood fill: the intensity of the filling, the tolerance of the color and the color type. The flood fill always fills with the Foregroundcolor.


Magnifier

You can zoom in or out on the current picture window when this icon is depressed. Single clicking on the image will zoom in on the picture.

To zoom out, hold down the shift button and then click on the image window. To zoom in on an area of the picture, click and hold down the mouse button on the image window, and then drag the mouse pointer. This will create a frame. Releasing the mouse button will only zoom in on that area of the image. You may also press "+" and "-" to zoom in and out.


Magnifier

You can zoom in or out on the current picture window when this icon is depressed. Single clicking on the image will zoom in on the picture.

To zoom out, hold down the shift button and then click on the image window. To zoom in on an area of the picture, click and hold down the mouse button on the image window, and then drag the mouse pointer. This will create a frame. Releasing the mouse button will only zoom in on that area of the image. You may also press "+" and "-" to zoom in and out.


Stamps

You can use this tool to stamp the current image with a preselected stamp. You can create stamps from lasso, or from a file. The intensity (level of transparency) of the Stamp can also be chosen. These options can be set via the "Stamp" Dialog box. When a stamp is selected, it will be used just like a normal brush, but the effect of the brush will be the stamp. Pressing the mous button will draw the stamp (you can press and drag the mouse pointer to get a continuous effect).

Stamps can be loaded or saved or generated from a lasso.


Stamps

You can use this tool to stamp the current image with a preselected stamp. You can create stamps from lasso, or from a file. The intensity (level of transparency) of the Stamp can also be chosen. These options can be set via the "Stamp" Dialog box. When a stamp is selected, it will be used just like a normal brush, but the effect of the brush will be the stamp. Pressing the mous button will draw the stamp (you can press and drag the mouse pointer to get a continuous effect).

Stamps can be loaded or saved or generated from a lasso.


Stempel Dialog

This dialog appears when you choose the Stamp tool. Here you can load, save or generate Stamps.


Text function

is activated by clicking on this icon. Clicking on this icon will invoke the "Text box" which lets you:

- enter text to be inserted

- the intensity of the text (level of transparency)

- type of the Font

- high quality

- text as lasso

- smooth edge


Textfunction

is activated by clicking on this icon. Clicking on this icon will invoke the "Text box" which lets you:

- enter text to be inserted

- the intensity of the text (level of transparency)

- type of the Font

- high quality

- text as lasso

- smooth edge


Text-Dialog

Here you can setup the Textstyle.


Filter Brush

Various filters can be chosen. "Filter" has an option box which lets you select the available filters, and matrix. Filters can be used as brushes in this mode. However, we recommend using lower intensitiers, otherwise unsatisfactory results will occur.


Filter Brush

Various filters can be chosen. "Filter" has an option box which lets you select the available filters, and matrix. Filters can be used as brushes in this mode. However, we recommend using lower intensitiers, otherwise unsatisfactory results will occur.


Filter Brush Dialog

Here you can setup the Filter Brush.


Copy Brush

Copy is a very interesting tool. Using the brush, you can copy any part of an image on to another graphics window.

Here is how it works:

You first select a starting point on the image where you want to copy from. Then hold the Shift button and click on the graphics window. This will be your starting point, denoted by a "+" sign. You must now move to the destination point.

If "constant offset" is not selected, then when you hold the left mouse button on the new picture window, everything from the first window will copy to the new window starting from the 2staring point" selected before.

When the mouse button is released and clicked, again, the copying will resume from the starting point of the original picture window.

If "constant offset" is selected, the upon releasing and re-clicking on the left mouse button, the copying will resume from the previous ending point (where the mouse button was released).

Here you can get nice effect, when variing the intensity.


Copy Brush

Copy is a very interesting tool. Using the brush, you can copy any part of an image on to another graphics window.

Here is how it works:

You first select a starting point on the image where you want to copy from. Then hold the Shift button and click on the graphics window. This will be your starting point, denoted by a "+" sign. You must now move to the destination point.

If "constant offset" is not selected, then when you hold the left mouse button on the new picture window, everything from the first window will copy to the new window starting from the 2staring point" selected before.

When the mouse button is released and clicked, again, the copying will resume from the starting point of the original picture window.

If "constant offset" is selected, the upon releasing and re-clicking on the left mouse button, the copying will resume from the previous ending point (where the mouse button was released).

Here you can get nice effect, when variing the intensity.


Copy Brush Options

Here you can setup wheter the distance between start point and end point will be constant or not. More infos are at Copy Bursh.


Finger

Finger has the effect like a human finger smearing over watercolors. It can be used to eliminate edges in a picture or to create art effects.


Finger

Finger has the effect like a human finger smearing over watercolors. It can be used to eliminate edges in a picture or to create art effects.


Water

Water or Flood gives a watercolor type effect on the current image. It is as though the colors of neighboring pixels (in the radius of the brush) are mixed together (with water), and the current color and the effect of the brush will be the color and effect of the newly formed combination of colors.

You can use this to eliminate edges in a picture.

To avoid ugly effects, you should choose a low intensity


Water

Water or Flood gives a watercolor type effect on the current image. It is as though the colors of neighboring pixels (in the radius of the brush) are mixed together (with water), and the current color and the effect of the brush will be the color and effect of the newly formed combination of colors.

You can use this to eliminate edges in a picture.

To avoid ugly effects, you should choose a low intensity


brighten picture

With this tool you can brighten parts of a picture. You should select a small intensity to get good results.


darken picture

With this tool you can darken parts of a picture. You should select a small intensity to get good results.


Foreground and Background colors

You can double click on one of these boxes to rech the Color Editor.

You can drag a color from every color field (i.e. Color Selector) from the on the screen to the Foreground or Backgroundcolor.

Use the double sided arrow button to swap the fare-background colors. As a reminder, the color chosen using the color picker will become the foreground color. The foreground color is the color that is used when a tool is selected (i.e., Brush). The background color is used by the Rubber.


Foreground and Background colors

You can double click on one of these boxes to rech the Color Editor.

You can drag a color from every color field (i.e. Color Selector) from the on the screen to the Foreground or Backgroundcolor.

Use the double sided arrow button to swap the fare-background colors. As a reminder, the color chosen using the color picker will become the foreground color. The foreground color is the color that is used when a tool is selected (i.e., Brush). The background color is used by the Rubber.


Observe Mask

If this icon is selected (depressed), and an active mask is present, then the masked area will be protected from any changes to the image.


Observe Mask

If this icon is selected (depressed), and an active mask is present, then the masked area will be protected from any changes to the image.


Process Mask

If this icon is selected (depressed), then all the masked areas will be displayed. Depending on the intensity and type of the masked areas, these areas will be blackened. If this icon is depressed, any part of a masked area can be unmasked by using any tool on the masked area.


Process Mask

If this icon is selected (depressed), then all the masked areas will be displayed. Depending on the intensity and type of the masked areas, these areas will be blackened. If this icon is depressed, any part of a masked area can be unmasked by using any tool on the masked area.


Show Grid

If activated Photo Line will display the grid on the screen.


Show Grid

If activated Photo Line will display the grid on the screen.


Observe Grid

If activated, it makes the tools snap to the grid.


Observe Grid

If activated, it makes the tools snap to the grid.


Show Mask

If activated, Photo Line will display the mask data on the screen.

You can change the display of the mask at Options.


Show Mask

If activated, Photo Line will display the mask data on the screen.

You can change the display of the mask at Options.


Show Vector/Lasso

If activated, Photo Line will display the vector/lasso data on the screen.


Show Vector/Lasso

If activated, Photo Line will display the vector/lasso data on the screen.


The Mask

The mask prevents parts of a picture before changes.

You can only parts of a picture that are not covered by the mask.

The mask in Photo Line can do more then only covering like an awning, you can use a gradient in the mask. Therefore the border gets soft.

You can convert a mask to a Lasso.


The brush

The brush is used fro all drawing actions.

There are two types of brushes in Photo Line:

- geometic brushes

This brushes are created and changedwith the Brusheditor . They can be circle or rectangle brushes.

-	free brushes

Free brushes can be painted in a grey picture. Then you have to create a  Lasso around the brush and drag it to the Brushlistpanel .


Intensity-Setup

This slider sets up the intensity of a tool to handle the picture.

A intensity of 100% means the picture will be fully replaced by the tool. A intensity of 0% means, there are no changes on the picture.


No settings

If there is no setup for a tool, Photo Line shows this box.


Tolerance Setup

This dialog apears for all tools which have a changeable tolerance, i.e. Flood Fill.

The higher you choose this value, the greater the effect of the tool will be.


Setup color planes

Here you can setup, which color planes Photo Line should change with the selected tool.


Process whole picture

This function makes Photo Line to change the whole picture with the selected tool, i.e. the Rubber can delete the whole picture using this function.


Cluteditor

With the Clut editor, you can change various attributes of the colors. Using the "brightness" and "contrast" sliders, you can modify the brightness and contrast of the picture. 0 means minimum and 100 means maximum.

You can change the color curves, for indiviaual color planes (RGB, CMKY, ...) or evenly for all of them. Double click on individual curve boxes to reach the Curveneditor.

You can drag a curve box to another box.

Using the "file" popup, you can save and load various Cluts.

For chages to take effect, "Adopt" button must be pressed.

To reset to the original settings, "Reset" button must be pressed.


Histogram

A Histogram graphically displays how often each color is available in a picture.

Photo Line calculates 3 histograms. You should only use the intensity histogram for serious work, the other are only to make special effects.

From left to right the histogram will display relative frequencies from darkest to light.

With the grey bar you can setup the distance for the intensities you wish.

The slider below is the intensity slider.


Replace Colors

With this function, you can replace all the pixels with a specified color index with another color index. You must first designate a source color index. You can do this by either double clicking on "Source color" box and choosing a color from the Color Editor , or use the Color Picker, or select a color from your Color Selector.

If using the Color Picker you must first pic a color from the image (this sets the Foregroundcolor), then you drag the foreground color onto the "Source color" box. If choosing a color from your Color Selector select it from the "Tools" menu. Then drag any color box to the "Source color" box of the "prplace Color" dialog box.

Once you have chosen a "Source Color", then you must choose a "Target Color". You can choose a "Target color" in a similar fashion as choosing the "Source Color".

In true color modes, it is very difficult to match two colors exactly. So you can set the tolerance level using the "Tolerance" slider (or entering a value directly into the text field). A tolerance of 99 is very forgivin, while a tolerance of 0 is very strict in matching colors.

To perform the color replacing, click on "Start".


Reduce Color

This feature will reduce the total number colors in the image. Allowed color reduction values are: 256, 128, 64, 32, 16 and 8 colors. To perform the reduction, click on the "Reduction" button.


Paint path

Paint path gives you the opportunity to draw with some drawing tools along a free lasso path.


Change Planes

You can change a color plane (source) with another color plane (destination), using this feature. You must first select a source plane. You can choose from the standard color planes, depending on the color type that you are in, or load a plane from TIF file. You must also specify a destination color plane.


Convert Picture

You can convert the current image to a different color-type or picture format. Here are the available possibilities:

Color to colr, with change in color tpye, i. e., RGB-> CMYK, or just plane copying;

- Color to gray scale;

- color to monochrome;

- gray scale to color;

- gray scale to gray scale (copy);

- gray scale to monochrome;

- gray scale to Vector: Everything wich is not white will become black when converted to vector graphics.

- Monochrome to color;

- Monochrome to gray scale;

- Monochrome to Monochrome (copy);

- Vector to color;

- Vector to gray scale;

- Vector to monochrome.

In all monochrome conversions, you can set the dithering pattern via the "Dither" button.

In the "Convert Picture" Dialog, select the destination picture type for conversion and then click on "Start".


Scale Picture

The "Scale Picture" Dialog lets you expand or reduce the size of the picture. There are several ways of doing this:

Using the up and down arrows, change the percentage of x or y. You may also enter an exact percentage in the text fields. You can also enter the desired final size of the picture, in either pixels, or in mm (depending on the resolution of the picture).

You also have the option of "proportional" scaling. If "fast" is selected, sthe scaling produces a quick, but of less quality, image.


Rotate Picture

With the Buttons "horizontal" and "vertical" the picture can be reflected accordingly. You may also specify an angle (direct text input or via the slider) for picture rotation. There is an option of "fast" rotation wich performs the task more quickly, but in a less quality. There is virtally no loss in quality if "fast" is not selected. You may also specify whether to rotate the bitmap or vector part of the graphics window. Click on "Rotate" button to perform the rotation.


Invert Picture

This function creates a negative of the active picture window. It is possible to create color or monochrome negatives of an image.


Project Picture

This function will superimpose an image onto a 3D surface is defined by the user, and can be loades and saved.

To create a 3D shape, you must first create a 2D outline of the shape, and Photo Line will extrude (rotate it to create a 3D shape. It is better to start from only one side of the vertical line. You can draw lines using the left mouse button and to end drawing, click on the right mouse button. To view the 3D extrusion, click on "Test". To clear, press "Reset". To rotate the shape in the 3D axis (x, y, z) enter the angles directly into the text fields or use the sliders.

"Range" determines how much of the 3D space the shape should be rotated by. To perform the 3D projection of the image onto the 3D surface click on "Projection".


Distort Picture

This feature will project the image onto a user defined Grid. The size of the grid (in pixels) is defined by the number in the "Grid size" text field; the display color of the grid can be changed by double clicking on the "Grid color" box. You can modify the grid by clicking and dragging the mouse on the intersection of each vertical and horizontal line. "Antial" or antialiasing produces less sharp edges. To reset the grid, cklick on "Reset". To perform the grid projection onto the graphics window, click on "Distort".


Separate Picture

Here pictures can be separated into theis CMYK components. UCR or Under Color Removal can be adjusted with the standard durve menu by clicking in the field. UCR denotes the amount of color removed that underlays another color.

K-Intensity or black cn be adjusted in the same manner. Gray-balance is used to control the percentage of gray in the individual parts of cyan, magenta and yellow. Separations can be saved to a file or loaded from disk.


Densitometer

The densitometer will calculate the density of each color value. For instance this could be used to correct the linearity errors from your scanner. Minimum, middle and maximum values can be adjusted for each of the color planes.


The command information (Tool menu)

Informationen shows some information about the active picture.

"Type" shows the picture type (RGB-picture, grey picture, bitmap picture or vector picture).

"Name" shows the name of the picture or of the layer.

"with Alpha" shows if there is a transparency information.

"Size" in pixel and mm shows the actual size of the picture or layer. You can change the size of the picture or layer here. If the picture has alpha, the border will be filled with alpha, otherwise it will be filled with the background color.

"Resolution" shows the resolution of the picture in dpi. You should setup this value to the resolution of your printer. Only if you setup this value correct, Photo Line can calculate the sizes in mm correct.


Screen Calibration

This is an ongoing problem that when you take a color image to the service bureau to be printed, the colors on the output are different than the ones you see on your screen. To prevent this from happening, Photo Line has color calibration built in. Each color plane can be calibrated separately, and when "Calibration on" is selected, you can view the graphics like it would appear on the output device.

You may save and load to from file, various calibrations, for various output devices. For technical reasons, calibration is only possible in 256/32k and 64k color modes. If the values are saved to "DEFAULT.CAL", then it is automatically loaded upon program start.